The initial revelation that a committee has been working to turn Dallas ISD into pretty much the legal equivalent of a multi-campus open-enrollment charter school blew up a couple of weeks ago without many details.

Since then, members of the Support Our Public Schools board have been explaining why they think the never-before-used "home-rule" provision in the Texas education code should be invoked. (Here's a piece by the DMN's Tawnell D. Hobbs and Matthew Haag that will get you up to speed, if you missed it.)

Today comes two new bits of data. One came directly to me. I'm working on a piece that will, I hope, look at how the largest school districts in the country do governance and whether there are lessons for us. I asked SOPS if it looked to any of those districts as models. In my reply, I also got back what I'm told represents "food for thought." Not the recommendations of SOPS, mind you, but the sorts of ideas that should be included in the conversation.

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